Ry Cooder Quotes

My life has been about big changes.

Everyone is always making transitions in life.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.

If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

After awhile, you start realizing that change is good for you. It's healthy.

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

I've been through a lot of changes.

Nearly a decade of time is enough for everybody to change, quite a bit.

People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about.